Document inhibit-local-variables-regexps in the lispref.

* doc/lispref/modes.texi (Auto Major Mode):
* doc/lispref/variables.texi (File Local Variables):
Mention inhibit-local-variables-regexps.

* etc/NEWS: Markup.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index 44467d5f51b422473b53ec28f299efb1db40f00b..872c4f564acda31d940b23052e4e9324935c1a92 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-01-21  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+       * modes.texi (Auto Major Mode):
+       * variables.texi (File Local Variables):
+       Mention inhibit-local-variables-regexps.
+
 2012-01-19  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
 
        * windows.texi (Window Configurations): Rewrite references to

diff --git a/doc/lispref/modes.texi b/doc/lispref/modes.texi
index 5d09b79748e974ac049571bb9bb6429f72eed934..b3aac231d5b3a65f4c83b04920f6cb2a5315aae9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/modes.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/modes.texi
@@ -588,6 +588,18 @@ Chosen, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.  If @code{enable-local-variables}
 is @code{nil}, @code{set-auto-mode} does not check the @w{@samp{-*-}}
 line, or near the end of the file, for any mode tag.
 
+@vindex inhibit-local-variables-regexps
+There are some file types where it is not appropriate to scan the file
+contents for a mode specifier.  For example, a tar archive may happen to
+contain, near the end of the file, a member file that has a local
+variables section specifying a mode for that particular file.  This
+should not be applied to the containing tar file.  Similarly, a tiff
+image file might just happen to contain a first line that seems to
+match the @w{@samp{-*-}} pattern.  For these reasons, both these file
+extensions are members of the list @var{inhibit-local-variables-regexps}.
+Add patterns to this list to prevent Emacs searching them for local
+variables of any kind (not just mode specifiers).
+
 If @var{keep-mode-if-same} is non-@code{nil}, this function does not
 call the mode command if the buffer is already in the proper major
 mode.  For instance, @code{set-visited-file-name} sets this to

diff --git a/doc/lispref/variables.texi b/doc/lispref/variables.texi
index b0a6795021b1670b4bf9e5c96de016de919d142b..a8f75f5a16000414327c0818734d1fc66594043b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/variables.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/variables.texi
@@ -1660,6 +1660,13 @@ Query (once) about all the variables.
 @end table
 @end defopt
 
+@defvar inhibit-local-variables-regexps
+This is a list of regular expressions.  If a file has a name
+matching an element of this list, then it is not scanned for
+any form of file-local variable.  For examples of why you might want
+to use this, @pxref{Auto Major Mode}.
+@end defvar
+
 @defun hack-local-variables &optional mode-only
 This function parses, and binds or evaluates as appropriate, any local
 variables specified by the contents of the current buffer.  The variable

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 743e3ce2e7b997824861338af751b2247dbc2656..b22f79225d543bae9086ed67bac35b8dfbdc5e62 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -369,8 +369,7 @@ turn on `whitespace-mode' for *vc-diff* buffers.  Modes should call
 *** Using "mode: MINOR-MODE" to enable a minor mode is deprecated.
 Instead, use "eval: (minor-mode 1)".
 
-FIXME: inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps was not mentioned in lispref,
-but this probably should be.
++++
 *** The variable `inhibit-first-line-modes-regexps' has been renamed
 to `inhibit-local-variables-regexps'.  As the name suggests, it now
 applies to ALL file local variables, not just -*- mode ones.